"Tor is only for criminals"

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Tor's daily users are overwhelmingly ordinary: people evading censorship, journalists protecting sources, researchers, and the privacy-minded - the network was funded to protect exactly them.

Onion routing began at the US Naval Research Laboratory, and the Tor Project documents its user base; anonymity systems only work when lawful users provide the crowd.

Disputed / commonly mistold A popular version of this story is inaccurate - see the note above.

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